Performer: Georgy Vasiliev

Christof Loy and Carlo Rizzi score a great success in bringing Respighi’s rarely performed opera the Deutsche Oper Berlin. 

Kathleen Belcher's production is well sung and vividly characterized – but a focus on the comedy comes at the expense of pathos

Àlex Ollé's harbour production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for Opera Australia is attractive and thought-provoking, with strong performances from Hiromi Omura and Georgy Vasiliev.